Storm in the 45th minute of the Napoli-Empoli match with De Laurentiis in the locker room. The Azzurri in journalistic silence

Naples – IL Naples Officially returns to the crisis tunnel. Kovalenko’s 91st-minute goal rewarded Empoli and condemned the Azzurri to a fourth defeat against Maradona in eight matches. An insufficient road map for the Italian champions. Regardless of the result, Napoli produced a largely inadequate performance for large parts of the match. Rudi Garcia clearly ended up under attack: he started with a 4-2-3-1 excluding both Kvaratskhelia (probably the best in Napoli) and Zelenskiy. The alarm went off really loud at the end of the first half. Aurelio De Laurentiis – In the stand with the brothers Fabio and Paolo Cannavaro – They went down to the changing rooms. A dark mood from the Italian number one who demanded a reaction that never arrived.

Napoli collapses and Empoli beats Maradona 1-0 with Kovalenko. Rudi Garcia towards dismissal

Garcia’s fate

In the second half, Napoli received only two goals from Kafara and Lindstrom, but did not do much to try to change the balance. Empoli took advantage of this and won the Foregrotta. Maradona’s 50,000 fans booed the team and set their sights on Rudi Garcia, whose fate appears to hang in the balance at this stage. The Blue Club has chosen to close itself in journalistic silence. The French coach was supposed to win to expel the bad ideas that exploded after the 1-1 draw against Union Berlin, but he lost again at home. These will be crucial hours. De Laurentiis ruled out his dismissal three weeks ago after Antonio Conte’s refusal, but he will now have to decide what to do so as not to jeopardize at least fourth place, which is Napoli’s minimum goal. Replacements have not been contacted – the names Tudor and Mazzarri date back to mid-October (after the defeat to Fiorentina) – but now everything could be back in question in the next few hours.

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